John Welch, MD
Retina Specialist · Hastings, NENPI 1033116074
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 13 payments — averaging $805.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- US Retina LLC$10K
- Alcon$65
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$651%
- Ownership interest$10,40399%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| US Retina LLC | 12 | $10,403 |
| Alcon | 1 | $65 |
How this compares
Too few retina specialist providers in Nebraskato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | 148 | $4,541 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 51 | $1,294 |
| Fluorometholone | 14 | $932 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 13 | $338 |
| Latanoprost | 14 | $158 |
| Timolol Maleate | 21 | $141 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 13 | $114 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 13 | $52 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other retina specialist in Hastings
- William TerrellHastings$572
- Pukhraj RishiOmaha$2K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.